Port to the Potter

Let’s take a trip to the Potter’s House this morning to examine how He does his thing. Two words are common in his vocabulary and they are clay and mould. The clay is the raw material used and the process is known as moulding. To mould is to shape a soft substance by pressing or rolling it or by putting it into a mould. The Potter has a picture in mind; an end result of the clay he is moulding, just as God has a picture He wants us to conform to. Before we were born He knew us and ordained us for a “purpose”. To fulfil this purpose maximally, we must conform to His specifications.

Have you noticed also that the Potter’s hand is always messy in the process of moulding the clay? He dips his hands into water, mud and whatever material He needs to create his object. In spite of the messy nature of that job, He never gives up because He is working at converting the clay to a particular image he has in mind. The potter wants to make something good out of that object; it’s not about Him, so he never minds the mess. All he wants is for the clay to come out beautiful. At the end of the day, you see on display a wide variety of moulded clay, some are more beautiful than the others no doubt, some are for a particular use or purpose, the potter determines what each would stand for based on the purpose He has in mind for each of them. The more the Potter takes his time to mould; chances are the better the clay would turn out. God is our Potter and it’s our choice to cooperate with Him in becoming what He wants us to be or not. As much as clay would not complain to a potter why it is being made in a particular way, so are we to humble ourselves under His mighty hand as He rolls,bends and moulds us to bring the best out of us.

Our lives are on display for the world to see. Each person is a sum total of how much he has allowed God work on him or her. God is perfect and He desires us to attain His image. He wants us to exercise the fruits of the Spirit. Your character shows how far you have co-operated with Him in bringing out the best in you. Be it as it may, your character and disposition show how far you have gone in your walk with Him. It’s not about how much of the scriptures you can quote or how much fire you can bring down when you pray, your fruits show what you are made of. In a great house there are many vessels; yet the same potter. 2^nd Timothy 2: 20 says “In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets—some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage. Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing” Some grumble and complain so much whilst the potter works on them, yet some others endure and they come out shining like gold. He has given us the free will to choose between two options.

 He told the Israelites, Behold I present to you life and death; choose whichever you want. God has good plans for us, He wants to take us to heights unimaginable; oh yes I know, but He won’t drag us there. He’ll walk side by side with us (if we allow Him) to help us attain our dreams.The Israelites had their set ways of doing things in spite of all the miracles they had seen yet  they were stiff necked, not allowing the Potter to mould them and they wandered and perished in the wilderness for 40 years. You are an arrow in the hand of God and you determine yourself how far you want to go by His grace.Isaiah 45 verse 9 says “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

God didn’t want interference when He was going to make Eve so He knocked Adam to sleep. Needless to say He needed no interference when He had earlier made Adam too because if He had asked for their opinion, they would probably have wanted another pair of eyes at the back of their heads. We can be rest assured that whatever God does is perfect; He knows the end form the beginning, whichever route He wants to take us through, it would end up in good. He makes ALL things work together for those who love Him. It is part of the process…

In conclusion, Hebrews 11:4-11(Message version) says:

We are all on the Potter’s wheel, spinning, spinning and spinning…till we come to the fullness of the Son of God ; Christ Himself. 

Would you rather port to the Potter Himself?